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Microsoft kicked off its Build developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Microsoft unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box with a new Nvidia chip for advanced AI tasks.
KEY POINTS
The new machine can run 120-billion parameter AI models, far surpassing most existing PCs' capabilities.
Microsoft will allow developers to access the recently unveiled Nvidia chip to bring AI directly to PCs.
Microsoft is prioritizing AI safety for Windows users and business adoption of agentic AI tools like OpenClaw.
The new AI-powered laptops will be priced to directly compete with Apple's premium Mac offerings.
Synopsis
Microsoft's Build conference showcased the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. This powerful machine features an Nvidia chip, promising to bring advanced AI directly to personal computers. Microsoft aims to enhance AI safety for its Windows users and compete with rivals in the cloud and PC markets.
Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco, showcasing a new computer called the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box loaded with an Nvidia chip.
In an onstage keynote, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, said the forthcoming computer was a "dream machine." There is a wait list to buy the computer and Nadella said he is on it, too.
Microsoft executives are expected to outline how the technology company plans to compete in the cloud, where it is both an investor and a rival to firms such as OpenAI, and increasingly on PCs.
Those laptop and desktop computers are becoming home to tools such as OpenClaw, a piece of open-source software that can direct groups of AI bots called agents to carry out everyday tasks for users. But OpenClaw, which has gained popularity in China and helped rival Apple sell Mac computers, and other such tools are also risky for most businesses to use.
Analysts expect Microsoft to work on making such agentic AI tools safer for businesses and the world's 1 billion users of its Windows operating system to use regularly. They also expect more details on how Microsoft will let developers tap a new Nvidia chip, unveiled on Monday, to help bring AI directly to PCs.
The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box follows a laptop that Microsoft introduced with Nvidia this week, and Microsoft executives showed it running an AI model with 120 billion parameters - a rough measure of a model's complexity - that most PCs would not be able to load.
The chip will go into laptops priced to compete with Apple's premium offerings, and its release helped boost shares of both Microsoft and major PC makers such as Dell Technologies , though analysts said it may take time for businesses to adopt the new machines.
Analysts also expect Microsoft to provide updates on its own AI models, using which it aims to compete in fields such as code completion with OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code.
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